Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — As Labouchere Sees Us. [ARTICLE]

As Labouchere Sees Us.

In many ways the United States have educated the world in politics, says London Truth, and I, for one, do not hesitate to say that their scheme of government is the best that has ever been established by a nation. But in nothing do we owe more to the Americans than for their having afforded us the great object lesson of a state pursuing the even current of its way without meddling in the affairs of other states, which has been the bane of European powers. Here we have a country, rich, powerful, industrial, and commercial, yet never troubling itself with what happens outside its frontiers; or annexing foreign lands on the plea of philanthropy, or on the ground that in some centuries its area will be too small for its population, or in order to create markets for its goods. And what is the result? No one dreams of attacking the United States, or of picking a quarrel with them.